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On Sunday, five years to the day after his memorable play became a symbol of a devastated community's will to carry on, Gleason, 34, went public with his diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
1 Landouzy-Dejerine Muscular DystrophyâThe older name for FSHD; named after Landouzy and Dejerine, who first described the disease in 1885.  Facioscapulohumeral DiseaseâThe term used by Dr. George W.A.M. Padberg in 1980 to describe FSHD as a multi-system, whole body disease.